Background
Nükhetsezâ was born on 2 January 1827 in Abkhazia. Born as Hatice Baras, she was the daughter of Baras Hatuğ Bey, an Abkhazian noble, and his wife Ferhunde Hanım, a Georgian.
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Career
When she was eight, her family emigrated from Caucasus to Istanbul, where she was delivered at the court of the Ottoman Sultan. Valide Sultan Bezmiâlem Sultan took Hatice in her care. Receiving her education in the palace, she was interested in playing piano and oud.
On 21 October 1841 Nükhetsezâ married Abdülmecid in the Topkapı Palace, and she was given the title of Baş İkbâl.
She is the great-grandmother of Prince Bayezid Osman Efendi, who is the present and 44th Head of the Imperial House of Osman. Tuberculosis took its victims in the palace as elsewhere in the nineteenth century and Nükhetsezâ was one of them.
She died at the Beşiktaş Palace on 15 May 1850 and was buried in the Mausoleum of the imperial ladies at the Yeni Mosque, Istanbul. 21 October 1841 - 15 May 1850: Devletlu Başikbal Nükhetsezâ Hanımefendi Hazretleri (Her Highness The First Honoured Lady Consort Nükhetsezâ).
